Extraordinary Scandal - The Westminster Expenses Crisis and Why It Still Matters

Insider and outsider perspectives on the expenses scandal combine in this exploratory book on the event, explaining how parliament fell out of step with the electorate and became a victim of its own institutional logic.

About the author

Emma Crewe is a research professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London, and Director of the Global Research Network on Parliaments and People. She is the author of Commons and Lords: A Short Anthropology of Parliament and House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work. Andrew Walker studied ancient history and languages. Until 2016 he was a senior official at the House of Commons and was the board member responsible for the Fees Office until it was abolished in 2010. He now advises parliaments overseas on finance and HR issues.

Summary

Featuring interviews with the MPs, journalists and officials close to the centre of Britain's biggest political crisis since the Profumo Affair, this is the story of what really happened during the expenses scandal of 2009.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Crewe, Emma Walker Crewe, Crewe Emma, Andrew Walker, Walker Andrew
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781912208753
• ISBN: 978-1-912208-75-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political structure & processes, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Biography: historical, political and military, Political structure and processes, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls